The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-09

NdIIOIS are valuable as 1000 Tor all
kinds Of stock, and 500 bushels NAV be
raised on an acre, but turnips are grown
In preference, because they terminate
from the seed sooner, and are not easily
oYerrun with grass and weeds.
1t is not generally known that hyacinth
and tulip bulbs, lifted after the foliage
begins to die, kept in cool, dry place
through the summer and reset in October,
produce the most abundant and perfect
flowers. This is worthy of trial.
The white and brown Leghorn fowls
begin to lay when only five months old.
They are non-setters, lay white eggs, and
rank very high as egg-producers. They
are, however, small in size, and do not
answer as well for market as do the larger
breeds.
a fast horse is not the best for the
pillow or cultivator, as such horses not
only soon exhaust themselves, but the
driver also. The best work can usually
be done with a slow animal, as the grass
and weeds can thus more easily be de-
strOyed.
The ST. Louis Republican says not a
few of our progressive farmers are adopt
ing a practice common among English
agriculturists and growing carrots as
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better root for cows and horses, sheep and
oxen. Carrots cause other food grain,
for example, to digest more easily.
The food that is given the hen should
contain all the elements that exist in the
egg. These are found in wheat, oats,
corn, bran, insecd, crushed bone,
mustard seed, sunfower seed. and
vegetable matter. Reasonable mixture
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the aid of crushed limestone or gypsum,
would afford every element called for to
produce a constant yield of eggs.
Water the lawn, if it can be continued
occasionally, in a long drought. Orna-
mental beds, such as those in ribbon
style. etc, should be at their best when
cool nights come, and the different kinds
should be kept from running into one
another. Judicious pruning will keep
them in order. 1t is not advisable to
save seeds, unless from very choice plants.
Cut away all faded flower clusters, unless
seeds of these are wanted.
A prolific provocation of bloody
murrain is drinking stagnant water.
Bottom lands that have been recently in
undated, marshes and low lying, clay
calcareous soils are all favorable to it's
development, and this season is likely to
produce it in many places. For the pro-
lection of other animals as we'll as of
men, too much care cannot be taken to
bury the carcasses of deceased animals
very deep, and at distance from run
ming or still water liable to be used by
other animals.
Newly planted trees often suffer ap-
parently for want of water, when really
there is much moisture in the soil. This
usually comes from the earth not having
been packed in tightly about the roots at
planting. Hence, good plan in such
cases is to pound the earth with a heavy
hammer around the trees. After this
practice it will be noted often that the
earth looks quite damp in the morning
where it seemed hard and dry before.
This is simply the pulverizing of the soil
so much insisted on by gardeners of the
old school.
A hog, says the New Orleans Picayune,
is naturally decent and likes clean
quarters and a clean bed; but to contine
him on thirty or forty square feet of
ground, or plank floor, with no chance
to keep himself decent, he loses his self
respect and decency and lays down in
his filth in the hot sun in swarms of flies
and armies of vermin and in foul at
with a comfortable hoggish
grunt; for hog is much of philoso-
Dher and makes the best of his ''mani-
fest destiny" Confine chickens, calf,
a sheep, or even neat hOusekeeper, in a
box, or rail pen, like hog, and see how
their quarters would look in a month or
a year.